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Exploring the First Vision

Samuel Alonzo Dodge and Steven C. Harper, Editors
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Table of Contents

  • Front Matter
  • The Earliest Documented Accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision
    Dean C. Jessee
  • The Appearance of the Father and the Son to Joseph Smith in 1820
    James B. Allen and John W. Welch
  • Joseph Smith’s Accuracy on the First Vision Setting: The Pivotal 1818 Palmyra Camp Meeting
    Richard L. Anderson
  • Awakenings in the Burned-Over District: New Light on the Historical Setting of the First Vision
    Milton V. Backman
  • Reverend George Lane—Good “Gifts,” Much “Grace,” and Marked “Usefulness”
    Larry C. Porter
  • The Expanding Role of Joseph Smith’s First Vision in Mormon Religious Thought
    James B. Allen
  • The First Vision Story Revived
    Richard L. Bushman
  • The Significance of Joseph Smith’s “First Vision” in Mormon Thought
    James B. Allen
  • Evaluating Three Arguments against Joseph Smith’s First Vision
    Steven C. Harper
  • Contributors

About the Book

This volume explores some of the seminal articles that examine Joseph Smith’s First Vision, which were written by the foremost experts who have studied it for half a century. This book preserves and shares that work. Those who study the First Vision today depend very much on the works of the scholars that are reprinted in this volume. The book includes articles by and interviews with James B. Allen, Richard L. Anderson, Milton V. Backman Jr., Richard L. Bushman, Steven C. Harper, Dean C. Jessee, Larry C. Porter, and John W. Welch.

ISBN 978-0-8425-2818-4

Published in 2012

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